Lexington County, South Carolina

2024 results by precinct

96 precincts · 146,903 votes cast

Trump · R+33

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−33.5%	47,815	96,965	146,903
2020	R	−30.1%	49,301	92,817	144,568
2016	R	−36.7%	35,230	80,026	122,093
2012	R	−37.7%	34,148	76,662	112,623
2008	R	−38.0%	33,303	74,960	109,512
2004	R	−44.7%	25,393	67,132	93,432
2000	R	−42.4%	22,830	58,095	83,081
1996	R	−33.1%	18,907	39,658	62,720
1992	R	−34.0%	18,312	41,759	69,022
1988	R	−56.5%	11,366	41,467	53,238
1984	R	−62.4%	8,828	38,628	47,721
1980	R	−38.1%	12,334	28,313	41,886
1976	R	−19.7%	14,339	21,442	36,077
1972	R	−71.1%	4,069	25,327	29,886
1968	R	−32.4%	4,058	12,204	25,169
1964	R	−42.9%	4,807	12,041	16,848
1960	R	−22.0%	4,159	6,511	10,670
1956	D	+15.8%	2,094	1,188	5,737
1952	R	−6.7%	3,513	4,018	7,531
1948	D	+17.8%	566	58	2,861
1944	D	+92.7%	1,986	20	2,120
1940	D	+97.8%	1,496	17	1,513
1936	D	+98.5%	2,138	0	2,170
1932	D	+95.9%	141	0	147
1928	D	+90.5%	1,228	61	1,289
1924	D	+98.9%	1,395	7	1,404
1920	D	+93.7%	1,813	59	1,872
1916	D	+93.7%	2,060	31	2,165
1912	D	+94.9%	1,201	0	1,265
1908	D	+93.8%	2,508	80	2,589
1904	D	+95.1%	2,403	60	2,463
1900	D	+95.5%	1,302	30	1,332
1896	D	+78.9%	1,672	197	1,869
1892	D	+76.0%	1,287	71	1,601
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

Polish

2.5%

African American

12.2%

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 39.8 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.7%

85+

1.1%

2.1%

75–84

2.8%

4.8%

65–74

5.6%

6.4%

55–64

6.7%

6.4%

45–54

6.5%

35–44

6.9%

6.4%

25–34

6.6%

3.8%

18–24

3.7%

8.8%

5–17

8.5%

2.8%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$77,408

Lexington County ranks in the top 25% of US counties.

Lexington County$77,408

South Carolina$69,324

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

11.1%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Baptist

14.3%

Other Christian

11.4%

Methodist

10.0%

Catholic & Orthodox

8.6%

Mainline Protestant

5.8%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.1%

Non-Christian

0.8%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 47.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Lexington County sits just west of the state capital and has absorbed decades of suburban migration from Columbia, producing a reliably lopsided Republican tilt — the 2024 presidential margin landed at R+33.5 despite steady population growth.

The shift began with civil rights. 1960 marked the realignment in Lexington County, by a twenty-two points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at seventy-one points in 1972. The 2024 margin was thirty-three points.

The political shift has tracked, in Lexington County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 72% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $77,408, and a 11% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Colonial Heights city and Aiken County.

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Lexington County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.